Stories
- Article
Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- Article
Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
Catalogue
- Books
The status of widows in sixteenth century rural Castile / David E. Vassberg.
Vassberg, David E.Date: 1994- Books
Avoiding poverty : strategies for women in rural Ireland 1880-1914 / Joanna Bourke.
Bourke, JoannaDate: 1994- Books
The English rural poor, 1850-1914 / edited by Mark Freeman.
Date: 2005- Books
English rural society and the New Poor Law : Bedfordshire, 1834-47 / William Apfel and Peter Dunkley.
Apfel, William.Date: 1985- Books
Paupers and poor relief in New York City and its rural environs, 1700-1830 / Robert E. Cray, Jr.
Cray, Robert E.Date: 1988